Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire A New Theory Of The Origin Of Life On Earth

Posted by: Digg on May 14th, 2006 8:50 AM

Two laboratories at Penn State set out to show how an obscure undersea microbe metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. What they found was not merely a previously unknown biochemical process--their discovery also became the inspiration for a fundamental new theory of the origin of life on Earth...